Azure HDInsight

What is Azure HDInsight?

Azure HDInsight is a cloud-based service from Microsoft that facilitates robust big data analytics. It provides optimized open-source analytic clusters for a variety of big data processing frameworks, including Spark, Hive, MapReduce, HBase, Storm, Kafka, and R Server. HDInsight is a fully-managed service that offers a 99.9 uptime SLA, enabling organizations to process large volumes of streaming or historical data efficiently

Highlights

• Supports multiple open-source big data processing frameworks, including Spark, Hive, MapReduce, HBase, Storm, Kafka, and R Server
• Fully-managed cloud service with a 99.9 SLA
• Enables processing of large amounts of streaming or historical data
• Part of the Big Data as a Service category in a tech stack